Discipline

It is our firm belief that any organization with no proper policy documents to guide all aspects of its operations cannot be regarded as serious. We have put in place the following documents.

1. The school rules and Regulations-1995 Edition. Every pupil, uponadmission to Kisumu Boys' High School is provided with thisdocument and told to read and understand it thoroughly. A pupilwho understands and acts according to the provisions of thisdocument normally will not have discipline problems.

2. Establishment and organization of a subject departmentdocument. This is an important document giving all the details ofoperations of subjects department and elaborates on departmentalorganization, teaching policy and testing and evaluation policy.The school also maintains files containing all the minutes of staffand departmental meetings.

3. The task of maintaining proper discipline.

4. Circular for admission, this helps to cube over admission.

a) Students Discipline

Maintenance of students discipline at Kisumu Boys High school (and indeed in any other school) is undertaken by the office of the Deputy Headmaster. The Deputy Principal however does not discharge this duty alone. He is simply in charge of a task undertaken by the entire staff as a collective responsibility. Prefects also play an important role in this task.

When there is no discipline, there is indiscipline.Committing an offence or acting contrary to the dictates of the school rules and regulations document is indiscipline and must be dealt with firmly and decisively.The following are common types of indiscipline

Lateness

Noise Making

Absenteeism

Disobedience to prefects

Cheating of any sort

Theft

Fighting

Drug abuse/ peddling

Several organs have been put in place to deal with such cases of indiscipline.

The Prefects body

The staff (general)

The Discipline committee

The Deputy Principal

The Principal.

The Board of Governors

Five Directors of Education.

b) Staff Discipline

It is not only student who will normally engage in acts of indiscipline.Cases of staff indiscipline do arise from time to time. For example ateacher may fail to discharge his or her teaching duties for a whole weekwithout permission, or he/ she may appear in school damn drunk andobviously unable to discharge such duties. At Kisumu Boys' HighSchool, such a teacher will be summoned to appear before Disciplinecommittee. Normally, the teacher does not desist from the unbecomingbehavior; the Principal will take up the matter and recommendedinterdiction. This has happened in the past. Such staff indiscipline israre, through to the extent that when we talk of discipline at KisumuBoys' without qualifications then we are referring to students' discipline.

c) Discipline of other workers in the school

The Discipline committee, the principal or the Board of Governors handles discipline cases involving this cadre of personnel in the school.

To sum up, discipline is a key element in the smooth and efficient operation of a school system such as ours. Kisumu Boys' High school has set the highest standard of discipline in Nyanza Province. It is our intention to guard this reputation jealously no alternative to this!